Former Mozilla Executive Seeks to Challenge Android

A Hong Kong-based startup run by former Mozilla President Li Gong aims to take on Android with its new Web-based operating system, H5OS.

Similar to the Firefox operating system from Mozilla, H50S is based on HTML5, a website-development language that tries to give Web apps the same capabilities as so-called native applications that are downloaded to a device like the iPhone.

Gong established Acadine Technologies in May but the new OS isn’t expected to be in the market until 2016. It faces an uphill battle to pitch its new operating system for mobile devices as an alternative to the current dominant systems: Android from Google and iOS from Apple.